Balsam Cap
Balsam Cap rises to 1,100 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the northwest, 2.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Friday Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
The story
Balsam Cap is a mountain located in Ulster County, New York. The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains. Balsam Cap is flanked to the north by Friday Mountain, and to the southwest by Rocky Mountain. The northeast and southeast slopes of Balsam Cap drain into Maltby Hollow Brook, thence into Bush Kill, the Ashokan Reservoir, Esopus Creek, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay. The southwest side of Balsam Cap drains into the headwaters of Rondout Creek, thence into the Hudson River. The northwest side of Balsam Cap drains into the East Branch of the Neversink River, the Delaware River, and into Delaware Bay. Balsam Cap is within the Slide Mountain Wilderness of New York's Catskill State Park.
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Wikidata Q4852530, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,099.72 m
How to reach it
- 13.4 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Panther Rock · 17 mi
- White Dot · 17 mi
- Compass Rock · 18 mi
- Copes Lookout · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Friday Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Rocky Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Dink: 1.4 mi
- Cornell Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Lone Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 4.1 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 5.7 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 6.5 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 7.7 mi
- Parish Field: 7.8 mi
- Future DEC: 2.6 mi
- Watson Hollow Unit: 3.1 mi
- Oak Ridge Unit: 3.2 mi
- Bushkill Fishing Unit: 4.1 mi
- Woodland Valley Unit: 5.7 mi
- Cornell Falls: 2.4 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 4.7 mi
- Otter Falls: 4.9 mi
- Vernooy Kill Falls: 7.3 mi
- Metacahonts Falls: 7.6 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 2.1 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 3.4 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 6.2 mi
- Yale Quarry: 7.2 mi
- Forstmann Castle: 7.3 mi
- Cornell Crack: 1.7 mi
- Samuels Point: 2.9 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 4.4 mi
- Giant Ledge: 4.7 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 10.9 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 7.6 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 9.0 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 13.0 mi
- The Den of Marbletown: 14.1 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 15.5 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 5.0 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 7.5 mi
- Winnisook: 9.8 mi
- Gnome Chomsky: 13.9 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 16.7 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 11.9 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 13.2 mi
- Scuba Diving Access Area: 18.3 mi
- Lake Minnewaska Beach: 18.3 mi
- Lake Awosting Beach: 19.2 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 18.1 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 18.9 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 19.6 mi
- SUNY New Paltz Student Garden: 21.8 mi
- Formal Gardens: 22.7 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 6.2 mi
- Rail Explorers: 7.6 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 15.0 mi
- Overturned 1938 Truck: 17.5 mi
- Swimming Hole: 18.0 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 2.9 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 4.4 mi
- Bear Wallow: 5.0 mi
- Piped Spring: 8.2 mi
- Box Spring: 12.6 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 14.9 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 17.2 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 22.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Balsam Cap. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | NW 316° | 1,266 m | 2.1 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain | WNW 292° | 1,180 m | 9.4 mi |
| Doubletop Mountain - South Peak | WNW 290° | 1,175 m | 9.2 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | N 2° | 1,174 m | 1.7 mi |
| Table Mountain | WSW 242° | 1,166 m | 2.8 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SW 232° | 1,164 m | 2.7 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | NNE 14° | 1,153 m | 2.2 mi |
| Panther Mountain | NNW 341° | 1,135 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357546546
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